Mazar-e-Quaid security ‘red alert’ over terror threats

The security has been put on high alert around Mazar-e-Quaid (mausoleum of Mohammad Ali Jinnah). Sources said some credible intelligence reports about possible terrorist attacks in or around Mazar-e-Quiad prompted the authorities to to take these extreme measures. Sources said that an unknown caller warned about a terrorist attack at the mausoleum over the phone. Police have set up pickets as well as snap-checking points on all the roads leading to the last resting place of the founder of the nation. “No vehicles are being allowed to near Mazar-e-Quaid. Only those visitors who are on foot can go into the complex”,